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U2

July 2024

  • Brian Eno … in scene that may or may not appear.

    Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

    Produced using software that means that the film is different every time it is shown, this presents the former Roxy Music man as a restlessly creative mind

April 2024

  • George Harrison and John Lennon. Harrison is playing Lennon’s Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar.

    Guitar played by John Lennon on Help!, lost for 50 years, going up for auction

    Guitar also played by George Harrison on Norwegian Wood could sell for millions in May auction, alongside other memorabilia including a book of Tupac Shakur’s handwritten lyrics

March 2024

  • Bono of U2 Hammersmith Palais, London 1981<br>Bono of U2 onstage at Hammersmith Palais in June 1981, fan's eye view in the crowd (Photo by Virginia Turbett/Redferns)

    Audiobook of the week
    Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono audiobook review – unexpected humility

    The U2 frontman narrates his own autobiography, using music to look back on his life - Band Aid hubris, iTunes regrets and all

January 2024

  • Taylor Swift, Charles Brown and Jeff Buckley, all writers of classic new year songs.

    ‘Feel no shame for what you are’: the greatest songs about the new year

    From Abba to U2, midcentury vocal groups to 00s emo, we highlight songs that clear up the previous year’s party and look to a fresh start

November 2023

  • Part of the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, showing the man whom a historian has identified as Lot Long, a Victorian thatcher from Wiltshire.

    Musical mysteries: the unlikely album cover stars who became modern pop enigmas

    As the old man on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album artwork is identified, we take a look at albums that are as famous for the faces on their sleeves as their music

October 2023

  • Bono of U2 performs at Sphere in Las Vegas

    U2 change lyrics to Pride to honour ‘beautiful kids’ killed at Israeli music festival

  • Laura Snapes

    Don’t play the hits! Rarities are one of the great joys of live music

    Laura Snapes

September 2023

  • ‘Amazing visual sleight-of-hand’ … U2 performing in the Sphere, Las Vegas.

    U2 review – an utterly astonishing, admirably raw Vegas extravaganza

  • Marc Bolan Of T Rex<br>Singer Marc Bolan (1947 - 1977) of English glam rock group T-Rex pictured sitting outdoors with his Gibson Les Paul guitar in a meadow in England in 1972. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)

    AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T Rex review – grizzled rockers pay tribute

April 2023

  • Beautiful day

    ‘We only agreed to do it if they shook hands’: Bono on the gig that helped end the Troubles

    From Neil Hannon to Bertie Ahern, musicians, politicians and PR gurus recall the crucial part that a 1998 gig played in Northern Ireland’s peace process

March 2023

  • Barbara Ellen

    Bono finally admits to liking Abba. It’s a sure sign of maturity

    Barbara Ellen
  • The Edge (left) and Bono busking in Dublin in 2018.

    Bono says pressure to look ‘macho’ made him hide his love of Abba

  • ‘An epic undertaking’ … (L-R) Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    U2 Songs of Surrender review – all the anthems, but smaller

  • The Edge.

    On my radar
    On my radar: The Edge’s cultural highlights

February 2023

  • BOSNIA-U2 CONCERT-FANS<br>Fans scream as Irish giants U2 performs during an open-air concert in Sarajevo's Kosevo stadium late 23 September. About 40.000 people from all three of Bosnia's former warring factions attended the concert, the first in the city by a top-flight rock group since the war. BOSNIA-U2 CONCERT-FANS

    Kiss the Future review – Bono and U2 keep hope alive in Sarajevo

    Nenad Cicin-Sain’s documentary tells the story of a maverick film-maker who, with extraordinary persistence, induced the Irish rockers to keep the spotlight firmly on the Bosnian war

December 2022

  • Sacha Baron Cohen attending the reception for the Kennedy Center honorees hosted by President Joe Biden at the White House.

    Borat targets Trump, Ye and antisemitism at Kennedy Center Honors

    Sacha Baron Cohen skit receives mixed response at ceremony for lifetime achievements in the arts

November 2022

  • Bono onstage at New York’s Beacon Theatre for the opening night of his Stories of Surrender tour, promoting his memoir Surrender.

    Bono review – U2 frontman’s pared back ‘solo in Soho’ show is a triumph

  • ‘If Bono goes on a bit, there is a vast amount to get through.’

    Observer book of the week
    Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono review – from Boy to Mandela

October 2022

  • Bono performing in Singapore in 2019.

    Book of the day
    Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono review – a rattling good yarn

  • FOR SATURDAY MAG 22/10/22. NO PRIOR USE Bono. Shot in Bono’s former school, Mount Temple school in Dublin. Shot in October 2022. Images for Saturday Magazine 22/10/22 NO PRIOR USE

    Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’

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